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Music Review: 'Home of the Brave' (1994)

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Reviewed by Evelyn McDonnell | Nov 04, 1994
EW's GRADE
A-

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On their second album, these Irish pub-rockers pay greater homage to their new home (New York) than to their old by tapping into rap, reggae, and rock. Though there's an emerald lilt in Larry Kirwan's voice, his songs evoke Springsteen's America. Their championing of the underdog only occasionally stoops to clichés. A-

Originally posted Nov 04, 1994 Published in issue #247 Nov 04, 1994 Order article reprints

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